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The area around Gongchen Bridge is good for walking, dining, people-watching, . . . Considering the age of the canal, it's impressive to see it still being used for commerce. The adjacent museum is a must for grasping the scope of the endeavor. Hangzhou can...More

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Group boat rides on tiny portion of Grand canal. interesting cultural spot, but aside from boat ride, not great. Village at far end had one nice cultural building with artists working and displaying and selling wares that were authentic, not cut trinket.

Ask erikj348 about Jinghang Grand Canal Hangzhou

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Took a cruise along this canal and it was really impressive. The canal is more than 2000 years old and is the longest and largest ancient canal in the world. The Hangzhou section itself is very interesting as along the canal are settlements and clusters...More

Ask Tay08 about Jinghang Grand Canal Hangzhou

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This is one of the great sites of Hangzhou, but hard to get information about! The Grand Canal is up there with the Great Wall as one of the major feats of ancient China, for me more interesting than the West Lake.
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It's very beautifull trip across the Grand Canal in the evening, when it's getting dark. It's also preferable the take a trip in a non raining weather - in this case the windows on the boat are clean and you can take good pictures. Almost...More

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Ask Evgenij K about Jinghang Grand Canal Hangzhou

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My daughter and I went in one of those canals across the West Lake to the other side it was really nice as we had never been on any of those canals. There were a lot of foreigners from different countries, it was such a...More

Ask caroline b about Jinghang Grand Canal Hangzhou

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It makes a great walk up the canal from Wulin square to Gongchen bridge. Many things to see and explore left and right from the water.
It is impressive to see how many heavy laden ships move up and down this historic canal. Especially when...More

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Ask JerryBigBee about Jinghang Grand Canal Hangzhou

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Sunday afternoon,took metro till Xihu Cultural square ,visited the huge plaza and reached the channel ,opposite just crossing a nice bridge( nice work of art in the stone of it ) over the Grand Canal saw the pier with the water bus .We had a...More

Ask AliciaCecilia about Jinghang Grand Canal Hangzhou

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We went to Jiangsu Provincial Museum, we walked by chance where the ferry to this place departs. We took it as it was heading to the Grand Canal. We paid 3 yuan on board the ferry and its stop to this village. Not much left...More

Ask Maria H about Jinghang Grand Canal Hangzhou

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Even if its free, don't ever go. We go on a local tour.Lining up for hours just to get on the small boat and look at the nothing but yellowish, stale river; no way!! The ticket are expensive, and it's meaningless compare to other scenic...More

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